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RELATIONAL SYSTEMS THEORY-THE PALO ALTO GROUP
  • The Players: Gregory Bateson and Colleagues
  • The Concept: Shifting the Focus from Individual to System
    • Systems Concepts
    • The Theory of Logical Types
    • A Rules Orientation
  • The Book: Pragmatics of Human Communication
    • Axiom One: "One Cannot Not Communicate"
    • Axioms Two and Four: Distinctions in Communication Types
    • Axiom Three: Punctuating Communication Sequences
    • Axiom Five: Symmetry and Complementarity in Interaction
    • Dysfunctional Communication: Paradoxes and Double Binds
    • Systemic Change: The Process of Reframing
  • Developments from the Palo Alto Group in Communication
    • Extending the Core Axioms
    • Content and Relational Messages in Interaction
    • Coding Interaction Sequences
    • Applications to Family Communication
    • Summary
THEORIES OF RELATIONAL DIALECTICS
  • Philosophical Roots
  • Central Concepts in Dialectics
    • Contradiction
    • Totality and Process
    • Praxis
  • Relational Dialectics: Contradictions
    • Major Relational Contradictions
    • Internal and External Dialectics
  • Relational Dialectics: Praxis
  • Research on Dialectics
    • Dialectics in Friendships
    • Dialectics in Romantic Relationships
  • Family Dialectics
COMPARISON AND COMMENTARY





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